Quality assurance market

The economic impact of software is certainly dependant in the quality of it. Companies developing software spend a lot of effort maintaining the software and removing errors and problems during the lifecycle of software. For companies using software, they have got so dependant on it that outages due to software errors can lead to...

U-Qasar project is nearing completion and the consortium convened last week in Madrid for the last face-to-face meeting. The meeting was hosted at the Integra Co-working space, a great place to have this kind of events. The list of things to do in U-Qasar is growing and serious coordination needs to be done to...

The previous post on this SQA tools series delved in Application Life-Cycle Management tools. This post will review the next link in the SQA chain, the test management tools. As in the rest of these series, we are only looking at those options that are available as SaaS. This time the analysis will mostly...

U-QASAR is organizing a 2.5h seminar about SaaS and SQA in Bremen on the 25th of February (9.30AM). It would be a great opportunity to see what new SaaS tools are in the SQA field. What makes it more exciting for us is that we will be presenting the U-QASAR platform prototype to a real audience...

This week we start a series of posts on software tools for managing software development and assuring software quality. Application life-cycle management (ALM), team management, testing management, automated and manual testing creation, security testing, load testing,… All this areas are ripen for new tools, and tools keep appearing. This results in a big messmesh of...

In the last post, we talked about how users can contribute to SQA processes in FLOSS. That somehow brought up the idea that SQA means different things depending who is doing it. In this post we try to better define the different understandings of SQA. Kitchenham and Pfleeger (1996) characterize software quality as an elusive...

The automated software quality assurance market is a subset of Application Lifecycle Management market. It typically includes test management, automated stress and load testing, and automated functional and regression testing. However, software quality comprises of much broader set of activities than these. Other areas include test data selection and management, unit testing, security and...